Yeah true, you still have to live... it's trying to control it most weekends, so it's not constantly two steps forward/one step back. Weekdays we're pretty good (although Disco's a little, uh, under the weather this morning ) but weekends it's hard to stay on track especially when you live in a food/wine region where most events and activities seem to centre around drinking booze and eating delicious things!

Personally I find weekdays easier than weekends because there's a structure to my day when I work. I don't have that on weekends (nor do I desire it) so I find eating is more chaotic and the desire to eat and drink is much more pronounced. Having MyFirnessPal helps with this by providing an artificial structure to my eating, but all distractions have to be self-imposed.

Been sticking to my bjj, sucking at it and sweating a lot but enjoying it, eating hasn't been tooooo bad but not as good as I want it to be, the weather had a sudden bad turn and it's been raining and windy and cold and it just sucks.

Think my paranoia about going over on the weekend meant I ate under, or at least I didn't eat enough carbs, and I've been feeling quite drained / excessively hungry for the last couple of days. Today I'm eating a bit extra to make up for it.

My daily limit depends on my exercise. My base BMR is currently 1720, then I add on any cardio exercise where I'm continually active for >5 minutes.

On days I run, it's around 2500cal. On days I do the long run, it's closer to 3000. On days where I only walk, it's around 2000. I let MyFitnessPal manage that for me since it can do the BMR and exercise calculations for me.

My daily limit depends on my exercise. My base BMR is currently 1720, then I add on any cardio exercise where I'm continually active for >5 minutes.

On days I run, it's around 2500cal. On days I do the long run, it's closer to 3000. On days where I only walk, it's around 2000. I let MyFitnessPal manage that for me since it can do the BMR and exercise calculations for me.

I know TDEE is best guess with the information provided.. but my TDEE is 2,570 calories per day, and on the days when I'm doing everything right I try to stay under 1500, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't I don't do a huge amount of activity out of a jiu jitsu class a few times a week so I'm not aiming to re-eat calories or anything like that.

My daily limit depends on my exercise. My base BMR is currently 1720, then I add on any cardio exercise where I'm continually active for >5 minutes.

On days I run, it's around 2500cal. On days I do the long run, it's closer to 3000. On days where I only walk, it's around 2000. I let MyFitnessPal manage that for me since it can do the BMR and exercise calculations for me.

How are you calculating that?

I've always read that a good baseline is 30 mins running = 300 cal depending on your output.... so you're running for a couple of hours? I feel like that's a massive miscalculation that going for a run is nearly doubling your energy expenditure for the day.

My Garmin Connect is calculating it, which I'm assuming it is doing based on weight, distance, and heart rate. And their numbers are in line with similar numbers I've seen online for running. For instance, this morning my run was 5km, went for 38 minutes, and it was calculated at 402 calories. My weekend runs are often around the 10k mark and the numbers range between 800 and 1000 depending on the distance and heart rate.

So with a 2500cal day, I'll get 1720 to start with, 400 from my run, 100 walking to work, 150 walking at lunch, and 100 walking home. And that doesn't include the incidental exercise I do in addition.

I've been eating Keto for the last 2.5 months (again) after a year being lazy and fat..
Also took up skateboarding almost daily for the last couple months or so. (am bruised and battered, even needed to start seeing the chiropractor)

Todays/current stats
~1400cal
19.5g carbs
7KG lost since I started again.

Disco and I did it for a while, it works pretty well - there's two ways you can do it, Keto which is (from memory) <20g carbs per day, or "Low Carb High Fat" which is <50g carbs per day. The important part is eating the high fat part of it. It was a lot of work in terms of tracking macros in the beginning to ensure you were getting the right breakdown of carbs/protein/fats... I certainly was surprised at the carb content of some foods when we did it.

Unfortunately I can't eat a high fat diet with medication I am currently taking, it causes me to literally spend my entire day sitting on the toilet - I call that the "shit yourself skinny" diet.

I had a good day today, went to my BJJ class even though I really didn't feel like it (raining again) and had a good time, had a Zinger Bacon and Cheese burger and 3 wicked wings for tea and still slid in under my 1500 calorie limit for the day.

I also went and had a full body composition scan, I wish I'd done this when I weight over 145kg, but hey, got to start somewhere, had to make sure I wasn't going to get disappointed by the results, got a long way to go but also came a long way so far. Thought I'd post it here so you could see what it looks like (and in case I lose the piece of paper), I plan on doing another one at the end of the year or early next year and comparing the two. Also, in case you're wondering - no, I didn't fit on the scanner, they had to cut part of my arm off to make me fit (still included in the results).

Negatives:
- Rolled my ankle on the intervals. Seemed okay to continue, but a few hours later it started hurting. No swelling and can (mostly) walk without issue. Gotta take it easy today.
- Wife has been sick and I seem to have come down with it too. So no chance of making my activity quota today (49 day streak over).

Looking back at the past week, it's been a good one.. going to go over my calories a tiny bit today but overall the week still ends up below target, just need to make sure I get through the weekend doing the same.